feeding my punk soul

found yesterday in the neighborhood paper shop.metallic colored lutradur kind of paper.i will be testing it during the rest of the week. the punk in me is going to have good clean fun :D

on the dummy warp front: tying on the real warp begins today at noon GMT+1




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working with a legend

taking my time. interesting, at least to me, how this one has been evolving over time. encompassing,without being consciously aware, the work with words in weaving . solving what i first thought were formal challenges, only to realize yesterday as i was talking to a friend, they were also content challenges .

happily working.  just a peek here.

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shibui top

 i think i'm settling for this draft. will have to throw a couple of picks in madder and indigo dyed silks just to make sure. but most likely i'll go with the walnut dyed silk as weft. so shibui .which is exactly what i want. something mottled and  understated that i can wear without getting tired. that's for the look.

for technicalities i have been working with this fractal image

straight from the batch, but then chopping it, resizing transforming the color, dithering it and finally adding an overlay in twill and plain weave. it may still go through changes, but i needed to get off the computer.if changes happen they will be dealt with after the weaving starts.

the sett will be somewhat loose, but it will be stabilized in the wet finish. better to start on the open side so as not to end up with cardboard.

have already started sleying the dummy warp. not wasting more than the necessary of that precious merino wool.

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